List 'lottery' decried
Up to 60,000 college students will suffer from the withdrawal of courses after more changes to the list of government-approved training qualifications, a report from the Association of Colleges says...
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Regional cooperation
A new era in post-16 education was heralded this week as the Further Education Funding Council, the Local Government Association and the training and enterprise councils agreed to cooperate in...
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Learning hurdles
More adults want to learn, but major barriers to education are still posed by unemployment, low socio-economic status and poor previous experience of learning, a survey says. In a Mori poll of more...
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Quality threat in fiscal crisis
A firm message to the government to be "realistic" about its future funding for colleges has been delivered by the Further Education Funding Council, as it confirmed this week that more than a...
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Honorary degrees
Nottingham Trent University DMus: Daniele Gatti, music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, former conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the...
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Dunstable, Herts merger axed
A PLANNED merger between the University of Hertfordshire and Dunstable College has collapsed at one of its final hurdles. The merger, which would have been the first between a university and a...
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Lecturers, AoC seek pay peace
A FIVE-YEAR dispute between further education employers and lecturers could near an end after commitments from both sides to try for a national framework on pay, conditions and employment policies,...
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Grand illusions
(Photograph) - Leeds University fine art students created a media frenzy around an elaborate deception this week. The students' claim that they used university money to go on holiday to Malaga as...
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Kiwi funding shifts towards vouchers
New Zealand has opened a free market in higher education with the announcement of a demand-driven student funding system that some have denounced as a "voucher" system. The universal tertiary tuition...
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MPs want Pounds 350m for FE
Further education needs Pounds 350 million a year to fund growth, but the extra money should not come from the current education budget, an all-party committee of MPs will recommend early next month...
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Child benefit traps report
Ministers have "softened" and delayed publishing proposals to cut child benefit in order to fund a unified national student-support system so as to avoid alienating voters in this month's local...
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Lords hear call for clinical trials of cannabis
The House of Lords committee considering the case for legalising cannabis for medical use heard of its positive benefits last week. Roger Pertwee, president of the International Cannabinoid Research...
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Budget cuts fear wanes
Australian universities have escaped further cuts in spending next financial year. The federal government's annual budget, announced last week, was designed to appease some of its strongest critics,...
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Forced to quit after shopping the boss
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports The plight of Bonnie Tall was the catalyst for Richard Shepherd's Public Interest Disclosure...
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Whistleblowers to call the tune
A bill to protect whistleblowers should soon be law, but few institutions are ready. Phil Baty reports Universities and colleges have been reluctant to introduce effective procedures for dealing with...